June 23, 2013

ASUS released a new OTA (On-The-Air) firmware (kernel) update for ASUS FonePad version 3.2.3 on June 3, 2013.

The OTA update size approximately 6.98 MB. To use OTA, go to Setting>About Tablet>System Update.

See
below for download link (Asus) if you want to download the update. The
update file(s) might not be available on the same time as OTA. Please be
informed.

DownloadNote:
- The firmware update cannot do SKU conversions or downgrades of your current software version.
- Using the wrong SKU may cause an update failure.
- You can only update your software version if you use the same SKU.

METHOD ONE (exploit by botto00)A fellow forummer botto00 from xda-developer forum already found the exploit to enable rooting. (Do not forget to thanks him!)

This exploit enable root with Superuser installed. The installation method is the same as using ASUS's own Droidboot (recovery mode) to update firmware version.To learn how to use Droidboot, please refer to this link (source: Asus)

Step By Step

1. Download rooted firmware file (raw extension).

2. Copy “ME371MG_all_xxxx.raw” to the root path of SD card.

3. Insert the SD card into the Device.

4. Turn the ASUS Fonepad device off.

5. Keep holding the “power key” and “volume up key” simultaneously for 5-10 seconds.6. You will see ASUS logo and the device will then go to download mode.

5. Hold the “volume down key” first, and then press “volume up key” for a few second. You will see a menu on the screen.

6. Select “SD download” (“volume up key” for move up; “volume down key” for move down) > Press “power key” for execute. The Device will start the update and then reboot automatically.

METHOD TWO (Cydia Impactor)This is a new method which is simpler and already tested. Cydia Impactor is a GUI tool for working with Android devices.Please click this link to go to Cydia Impactor page.Note : If you are on Windows, you may have to install a device driver to talk to your device over USB. If your device is not detected, use Impactor's USB Driver Scan feature to attempt to automatically construct and install a driver for your device. You do not need the Android SDK.
#Credit to Chirantantab for easier to follow method. Thanks! (I only did some editing for better understanding)

# If su saving has been done before, you need to to lose the
# immutable attribute in order to overwrite it. If this is the first time
# you've saved su, you can skip this step.
/system/bin/busybox chattr -i /system/usr/abcd/efgh

# After it is known to work, you can get rid of the squirrelled away su by
# changing its attributes, and removing. But, don't remove it until you are
# absolutely confident that you have a good su on your system. Indeed,
# you might just leave it there.
# Use adb and get root.
su
rm /system/usr/abcd/efgh
cd /system/usr
rmdir abcd

Despite being one of the biggest dreams of every fan of River seem that
the return of Pablo Aimar, one of the millionaire club prodigal sons,
will have to wait.

What happened now? It happens that the
steering wheel 33, recently split from Benfica of Portugal, where he
played from 2008, was in the country and had admitted having had a chat
with Emiliano Diaz, son and aide of Ramon current club coach Nunez.

Given
this, of course, it seemed that the Cordoba was one step away from
returning to the team where he was born, but these days, things seem to
have turned around 180 degrees.

Aimar traveled to Malaysia,
tempted by an offer from Johor Darul Takzim, an unknown team from the
First Division of the country which is keen to hire former Argentina
Team player.

In this way, although nothing is confirmed, it
appears that once again the dream will be truncated. The long awaited
return of one of the last idol that took the club, for now, is we will
see once again.

June 09, 2013

As we all already knew, Google Reader will be closed on 1st July 2013 and everyone including myself are currently searching for a new feeds aggregator since. Good bye to "Google Reader" for everything.

Google Reader was created in 2005 by Chris Wetherell and officially launched through Google Labs on 7th October 2005. It grew in popularity as a platform to serve news & information to the masses. Unfortunately on 13th March 2013, Google announced Google Reader's closure due to declining usage.

Well, a bit of history and now I will share a new feeds aggregator that I found to fit my requirement just fine.

Asus revealed the new 6-inches ASUS FonePad Note FHD 6 powered by Intel ATOM Z2560 at Computex 2013 today. It comes with a digital stylus for sketching and notetaking which we might say as about the same as Samsung Galaxy Note itself.